Becoming modern
Subtitle: the life of Mina Loy
By: Carolyn Burke.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 493
Subjects: Loy, Mina.; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
Description: The poet and visual artist Mina Loy (1882-1966) has long had an underground reputation as an exemplary avant-gardist.

Born in London of mixed Jewish and English parentage, and a much photographed beauty, she moved in the pivotal circles of international modernism - in Florence as Gertrude Stein's friend and Marinetti's lover; in New York as Marcel Duchamp's co-conspirator and Djuna Barnes's confidante; in Mexico with her greatest love, the notorious boxer-poet Arthur Cravan; in Paris with the Surrealists and Man Ray.

Carolyn Burke's riveting, authoritative biography brings this highly original and representative figure wonderfully alive, in the process giving us a new picture of modernism - and one woman's important contribution to it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-474) and index.